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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · 2d

Can you elaborate?

Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got a new piece out! DC’s bus shelter system has been broken for far too long and the District can now do something about it - but there’s still room to improve. Check out my latest in @ggwash.org

ggwash.org/view/101107/...

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Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · Jul 29

NEVER show a NIMBY the reverse angle of this block

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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thorough reporting on the #nudifier eco system by @indicator.media - @santi4dc.bsky.social. Updates figures on distribution, monetization and reach of multiple nudify apps and the scene overall. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...

AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions

We estimate that the nudifier economy is worth up to $36 million a year

indicator.media

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 14

Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars

Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

www.wired.com

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Jul 14

NEW: AI 'nudifiers'—one of the biggest generative AI scourges—are likely making millions from abusive images.

Analysis of 85 nudifiers from @indicator.media says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars

Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

www.wired.com

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · Jul 14

NEW with @santi4dc.bsky.social on @indicator.media:

We estimate that 18 AI nudifiers made between 2.6 and 18.4 million dollars over the six months to May 2025.

We believe this to be the first estimate of the overall turnover of these instruments of abuse.

Full 3,600 word report:

AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions

We estimate that the nudifier economy is worth up to $36 million a year

indicator.media

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · Jul 12

Gonna do a thread of interesting court records. Whatever platform (Bluesky or Twitter) gets the most retweets in the next 15 minutes gets it. Posting this on both sites.

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excellent read on the network behind "ClothOff" and how nudify apps are more and more operating as scaled businesses (even buying out their competitors). Scaled business = scaled image based sexual abuse.

Now available in English too (thank you for that)

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 12

cc: @rachelweiner.bsky.social @maustermuhle.bsky.social

Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 12

...in govt vehicles and the vehicles around them. Saves the District money and saves lives and stops injuries. Hoping that DC can eventually implement this on all 3,000 of its fleet vehicles (which for clarity doesn't include police or fire/ems vehicles).

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 12

Some interesting news out of the DC Office of Risk Management budget hearing: Three agencies are implementing a pilot to add Intelligent Speed Assistance to their fleet vehicles (ORM, CFSA, and DFHV). This is a great move since ISA can prevent speeding both...

www.nhtsa.gov/book/counter...

Intelligent Speed Assistance | NHTSA

A key premise of speed management is that drivers must at all times and locations know what the speed limit is in order to be able to obey that limit. With the complex task of driving and navigating i...

www.nhtsa.gov

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Briver's biggest nudify website "PornGen", most recently had around half a million unique visitors a month until it just went down. More than a drop in the bucket...

Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is so awesome to see. Major shout out to the SF city attorney on this!

This explains why Clothoff was blocked in CA (and not other states, yet).

And Briver LLC has also agreed to pay $100,000 in civil penalties, which was responsible for a few deepfake sites.

www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Deepfake porn website operator settles with San Francisco, agrees to shut down

The San Francisco City Attorney's office has settled with a company that operated websites creating "deepfake nudes", where artificial intelligence is used to turn photos of children and adults into p...

www.cbsnews.com

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks!

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thank you for all this!

Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 1

Anyone have an idea where to find them? Would be useful to understand the funding plans.

@cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @cmnadeauoffice.bsky.social @cmchenderson.bsky.social @fixcircle.bsky.social @bstum.bsky.social @nsementelli.bsky.social

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · Jun 1

Anyone know what’s going on with the budget docs for the RFK campus infrastructure fund? The CFO’s site for the fund currently links to budget docs for the convention center fund instead.

Is it just not funded at all so there are no docs?

cfo.dc.gov/node/1783481

2026 WC0 RFK Campus Infrastructure Fund

The RFK Campus Infrastructure Fund is a non-lapsing special fund that will pay certain costs, including debt service and payments related to bonds, for the development, construction, and renovation of...

cfo.dc.gov

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Greg Billing @gregbilling.bsky.social · May 21

Complete street projects reduce crashes and injuries, increase bike riding and walking rates, has little overall impact on vehicles speeds. See data for three DC project here: before-after-evaluations.ddot.dc.gov

Before-After Project Evaluations

DDOT website sharing information about Before/After project evaluations.

before-after-evaluations.ddot.dc.gov

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · May 13

I’m so sorry for your loss

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · May 9

If @wmata.com wants real bus rapid transit then I hope they can put up the money to help @ddotdc.bsky.social get it done. DDOT has some of the best bus priority planners in the country but the current bus priority budget doesn’t allow for true BRT.

Please consider this @wmatagm.bsky.social!

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · May 8

DC’s Metro has effectively killed talk of expanding the rail system because of high construction costs. Getting bus lanes right & getting transit out of traffic is the only alternative.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · May 7

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat

Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

www.bellingcat.com

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · May 5

This was an amazing surprise to see yesterday. Arguably, the most popular platform for deepfaked non-consensual pornographic videos is being shut down!

Good riddance, MrDeepFakes! Hopefully this will start a cascade of other sites being shut down?

Shutdown notice: A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation.
We will not be relaunching. Any website claiming this is fake. This domain will eventually expire and we are not responsible for future use.
This message will be removed around one week.

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · May 5

This part is really critical. Mr Deepfakes was a hub for abusers teaching each other and collaborating as well as one of the first places I observed advertising for nudify apps. Sadly this is too little too late but I’m glad to see it.

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · May 3

What app do you use for the timestamp + geocoding?

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Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social · May 2

@maustermuhle.bsky.social @rachelweiner.bsky.social since I believe you both have been following these lawsuits.

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